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Iran-linked hackers person reportedly claimed that they broke into the idiosyncratic email inbox of FBI Director Kash Patel and published a bid of backstage photographs and documents online, marking 1 of the astir blase cyberattacks connected a sitting US instrumentality enforcement chief.
According to a study by quality bureau Reuters, the assertion was made connected Friday (March 27) by the hacker radical Handala Hack Team, which besides took work for hacking the aesculapian devices manufactured by Stryker – 1 of the biggest aesculapian instrumentality shaper successful the US.The study says that the hackers posted extended worldly connected its website on with a pointed connection for the FBI Director: Patel “will present find his sanction among the database of successfully hacked victims.”
What worldly has hackers published
The study claims that the hackers uploaded a postulation of idiosyncratic photographs of the FBI director, including images of Patel smoking and sniffing cigars, riding successful an antique convertible and taking a selfie successful the reflector portion holding a ample vessel of rum. Additional documents were besides published alongside the photographs. Reuters says that a Justice Department authoritative confirmed that Patel's email had so been breached, and said the worldly published online appeared to beryllium authentic.
The quality bureau claims that Reuters reviewed a illustration of the uploaded material, which appeared to incorporate a premix of idiosyncratic and work-related correspondence dating from 2010 to 2019.The quality agency, however, says that they were incapable to independently authenticate the emails but the idiosyncratic Gmail code that Handala claims to person breached into matches an code linked to Patel successful erstwhile information breaches, according to records preserved by acheronian web quality steadfast District 4 Labs.Meanwhile, respective accounts connected societal media level X (formerly Twitter) person started to station photos purportedly from the breach and a connection from Handala.
Read hackers' afloat message
Kash Patel existent manager of the FBI Hacked2026-03-27Today, erstwhile again, the satellite witnessed the illness of America's alleged information legends. While the FBI proudly seized our domains and instantly announced a $10 cardinal reward for the heads of Handala Hack members, we decided to respond to this ridiculous amusement successful a mode that volition beryllium rememberedKash Patel, the existent caput of the FBI, who erstwhile saw his sanction displayed with pridefulness connected the agency's headquarters, volition present find his sanction among the database of successfully hacked victims. The alleged "impenetrable" systems of the FBI were brought to their knees wrong hours by our team. All idiosyncratic and confidential accusation of Kash Patel, including emails, conversations, documents, and adjacent classified files, is present disposable for nationalist download.This is the information that the U.S. authorities boasts about?! This is the cyber elephantine that thinks threats and bribes tin soundlessness the dependable of resistance?! To the full world, we declare: the FBI is conscionable a name, and down this name, determination is nary existent security. If your manager tin beryllium compromised this easily, what bash you expect from your lower-level employees?Dedicated to the martyrs of the Dena destroyer.This is conscionable our beginning...
Who is Handala
Handala describes itself arsenic a radical of pro-Palestinian vigilante hackers. As precocious arsenic March 11, Handala claimed work for a cyberattack connected Stryker, a Michigan-based aesculapian devices and services company, alleging it had deleted a monolithic trove of the company's information and disrupting the firm's operations for astir a week.
